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Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965) was an American actress.〔Obituary ''Variety'', August 11, 1965.〕 ==Life and career== Carroll was christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City. Of Irish parentage, she and her sister once performed a dancing act in a local contest of amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then on to screen stardom. She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became a successful actress in "talkies" because her musical background enabled her to play in movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in ''Ladies Must Dress'' in 1927. In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, ''Easy Come, Easy Go'', co-starring Richard Dix, made her a star. In 1929 she starred in ''The Dance of Life'' with Hal Skelly, and ''The Wolf of Wall Street'' along with George Bancroft and Olga Baclanova. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930 for ''The Devil's Holiday''. Among her other films are ''Laughter'' (1930), ''Paramount on Parade'' (1930), ''Hot Saturday'' (1932) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, ''The Kiss Before the Mirror'' (1933) directed by James Whale, and ''Broken Lullaby'' aka ''The Man I Killed'' (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Under contract to Paramount Pictures, Carroll often balked at the roles the studiobeing offered her, and earned a reputation as a recalcitrant and uncooperative actress. In spite of her ability to successfully tackle light comedies, tearful melodramas, and even musicals, and as well as garnering considerable praise by the critics and public – she received the most fan mail of any star in the early 1930s – she was released from her contract by the studio. In the mid-1930s under a four-film contract with Columbia Pictures, she made four rather insignificant films and was no longer an A-list actress. Carroll retired from films in 1938, returned to the stage, and starred in the early television series ''The Aldrich Family'' in 1950. In the following year, she guest-starred in the television version of ''The Egg and I'', starring her daughter, Patricia Kirkland. On August 6, 1965, Carroll was found dead after failing to arrive at the theater for a performance. The cause of her death was an aneurysm. She was 61 years old. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nancy Carroll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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